The News in BALANCE. November 2020 Updates to the BALANCE Website I thought I should get my act together and write a new Blog to coincide with the updated site going live on the afternoon of Wednesday 17th November. Some of the things that have been done to the site are not going to be so obvious to you but have improved the mechanics of the way it functions in the background. Some of the changes you will see are: The Home Page will have somewhere at the...
Well, here we are, well into the summer months (although the weather here in the UK is more like September than July) and still only feeling our way out of the full lock-down that has impacted most countries around the world. In April, the BALANCE office was forced to close completely, with Teressa and I furloughed in an attempt to wait-out the complete stopping of income with most horse owners around the world being forced to stop riding. The bills for the company running costs still had to be paid during...
During a recent session of tidying my office and looking through old paperwork and files, I made the mistake of looking through some old diaries that Carol and I used to use before the days of iCal. Of course, this is a dangerous thing to do, because inevitably, we end up spending the time allocated to the tidying to reminiscing and going over historical documents! The diaries I found go back to 1993 and there are notes in them that show appointments we had with various saddle makers and influential people in the saddle...